The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1887-03-26
GRANT AND HANCOCK.
True story or the circumstances That
Led 10 their Estrnngement.


Gen. James Is. Fry, us A., speak
ing few days ago of the recently
published article as TO the disagreement
between Gen. Grant and Gen. Hancock,
said TO have come from "well-known
Maio General entitled 1.-THE Grant
Hancock Tin," said similar article
appeared in New York eyenlngpaper
year ago, and that the statements
were ATTRIBUTED 10 Gen. Alfred Pleas
anton. AS Gen. Pleasantcu was an
old acquaintance of Mrs. Hancock, who
felt much aggrieyed by the story, she
wrote asking IL he had b. en- correctly
reported. He answered that the
statement had been made without his
knowledge, that he had never made
any such statements, had no idea who
the author was, etc. The Washington
correspondent who wrote the story was
taken 10 task by his editor, and replied
that Gen. PleaSanton did tell the story
"without solicitation and purely and
solely voluntarily on his part" The
substance OF the two stores was that
when Mrs. Grant and Mrs. Hancock
were young ladies in society in 81.
Louis AS Miss Dent and Miss Russell
there was a marked difference in favor
OF the latter in their social positions;
that the Russell family entertained
splendidly; that the Dent family did
not mingle in the society of the city,
but lived humbly and irugally; that
Miss Russell was the rich prize; that
Miss Dent became just little bit
envious OF the much sought rich young
lady; that from this seed--envy- sprang
the Grant Hancock quarrel; and that
said quarrel was preclpitated az the
close of the War by Mrs. Grant forcing
her husband TO give her revenge upon
the rival of her youth by turning Gen.
Hancock and his family out of quarters
and taking her into the house thus
vacated.
Gen. Fry says: 1T is not true that
Gen. Grant turned Gen. Hancock out
OF quarters, or that the trouble between
them was lased upon any question
concerning quarters. There was no
bad feeling between them until 1868,
when Gen. Hancock, then in New Or
leans, was over-ruled by Gen. Grant.
The difference that then arose was
official and, though 1t was subsequent
" aggravated by other official matters,
il was in time removed, and their re-
lations were thereafter friendly until
1880. While Hancock was running
for the Presidency in that year a
preacher by the name Of Fowler pub
! lished an account Of an interview he
had held with Grant, in which he re-
ported Grant as having said unkind
and injurious things of Hancock.
Hancock stated TO his friends and TO
the public that he could not believe
Grant could have been correctly repor-
ted, and that Grant himself would
make the necessary contradictions.
But as that was not done Hancock
settled down TO the conclusion that
Grant had wronged him, and they
ceased to be on speaking terms; so
they died Their wives were in no
respect TO blame for their differences.
Concerning the unjust fiction relating
TO the early associations OF Mrs. Grant
and Mrs. Hancock, the latter has said
TO me recently: "This attack is untruth-
lulg NdhbOlf anu uhliONOhNAs IN AZ
some one has seen lit 10 sacrifice Mrs.
Grant for the purpose of placing me
In a false position. ...... The article
is baseless and cruel. ..... Our in
tercourse with the Grants remained
perfectly cordial up To the New Or
leans affair. l knew Mrs. Grant very
slightly before her marriage, which
took place in 1913. At that time |
wasest school, but left the summer fol-
lowing. Nellie Dent, Mrs. Grant, was
n contemporary of mine. ! was very
fond of her, as well as OF old Mr.. and
Mrs. Dent, who occupied as good a
position In st. Louis rs any one, and
had quite as good claims, in my opin-
ion. They were hospitable people.
The family were not living out OF the
city, but in it, very near TO my home,
and / saw much Of them"
Gen. Fry adds further: "As Mrs,
Grant was married and went out OF
the young society of st. Louis in 1913
and Mrs. Hancock was at school then
and did not enter society until 1S4s
and was married in 1850 when only Is
years OF age, there 10 no foundation
for the story of rivalry between them
as young ladies' which led 10 quarrel
between their husbands in after life
An EdIter's Isard suck.
A California editor thinks that re-
publics are lingrateful, aud, apparently